On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 15:13, Ingo Molnar wrote:> * Shane Shrybman <shrybman@aei.ca> wrote:> > > V0.7.25-1 has been stable here with the ivtv driver for 11 hrs. No> > sign of the ide dma time out issue either. Out of curiosity, do we> > know what solved that problem?> > could you try the attached patch - does it trigger the DMA timeouts> again? There were 3 changes to the IOAPIC code that could have affected> your dma-timeout problem, this patch reverts all of them.>

Yes it does trigger the DMA timeouts again. Just the addition ofCONFIG_SMP dep is enough to trigger it. Which isn't surprising sincethe hack was to put #if 0 there wasn't it?